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Bruce leads Reds' 10-0 rout over CardinalsWednesday, 28 August 2013 23:03 Published in Sports
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Jay Bruce homered and had five RBIs and the Cincinnati Reds got a dominant effort from Homer Bailey to beat the St. Louis Cardinals 10-0 on Wednesday night and avoid a three-game sweep.
The Reds came out swinging a few hours after Brandon Phillips' expletive-filled tirade at a Cincinnati Enquirer reporter sparked by scrutiny of his .310 on-base percentage, and after manager Dusty Baker criticized his team for falling short while dropping four of five.
The Cardinals lead the NL Central by a half-game over Pittsburgh after losing for the third time in 12 games, and the Reds are 3 1/2 games back.
Bailey (9-10) capped a six-run first against Adam Wainwright (15-8) with the Reds' sixth hit and his first RBI of the season. He allowed five hits in 7 1-3 innings with seven strikeouts and is 4-0 in his past six starts.
The poor start was unusual for Wainwright, who matched his career worst with nine runs allowed and lasted two innings for his shortest outing of the year.
He had worked at least seven innings his previous eight starts and was coming off a complete game against the Braves.
Phillips singled his first two at-bats and struck out his next two trips while going 2 for 5.
The Reds also got RBIs from Ryan Ludwick and Todd Frazier in the first with another run scoring on a wild pitch. Zack Cozart got the first of his three hits when Wainwright failed to cover first.
Phillips singled and Joey Votto walked again to open the second, setting the table for Bruce's 26th homer on a 1-2 pitch. It's his third five-RBI game, one of them against the Cardinals in 2009.
Rookie Michael Wacha was a bright spot for St. Louis, following Wainwright with four scoreless innings and seven strikeouts.
Shortstop Pete Kozma was among four substitutes in the sixth with the Reds still up 9-0, going to left field in his first appearance as an outfielder since July 28, 2007, when he played right field for Class A Gulf Coast.
Chris Heisey put the Reds in double figures with his 10th homer off Fernando Salas in the ninth.
Notes: Votto entered just 3 for 23 with one RBI and one walk against Wainwright. ...The Reds have won three of the past 11 in the series. ... Cardinals pitcher Chris Carpenter, out all season with a nerve ailment, accompanied the team on its last trip to serve as a mentor after manager Mike Matheny said he "realized he could bring value." Matheny was hopeful the pitcher would make the next trip, too.
Manziel to sit half of A&M's opener against RiceWednesday, 28 August 2013 23:01 Published in Sports
HOUSTON (AP) -- Johnny Football's season will start a little late.
Johnny Manziel was suspended for the first half of Texas A&M's opening game against Rice on Saturday for what the school called an "inadvertent" violation of NCAA rules by signing autographs.
The penalty appears to have brought a quick end to an investigation that could have ruined the seventh-ranked Aggies' upcoming season.
The school issued a statement Wednesday saying it declared the Heisman Trophy winner ineligible and that the NCAA agreed to reinstate Manziel after he sits out the first half against the underdog Owls.
"I am proud of the way both Coach Sumlin and Johnny handled this situation, with integrity and honesty," Texas A&M Chancellor John Sharp said in the statement. "We all take the Aggie Code of Honor very seriously and there is no evidence that either the university or Johnny violated that code."
The quarterback was being investigated by the NCAA for allegedly accepting money for signing autographs for memorabilia brokers, a violation of NCAA rules that could have led to a much longer suspension. ESPN first reported the allegations against Manziel earlier this month.
According to the statement, Texas A&M and the NCAA "confirmed there is no evidence Manziel received money in exchange for autographs based on currently available information and statements by Manziel."
Conditions for reinstatement include Manziel discussing his actions with teammates and A&M revising how it educates student-athletes about signing autographs.
"Student-athletes are often asked for autographs from fans, but unfortunately, some individuals' sole motivation in seeking an autograph is for resale," said Kevin Lennon, NCAA vice president of academic and membership affairs. "It is important that schools are cognizant and educate student-athletes about situations in which there is a strong likelihood that the autograph seeker plans to resell the items."
He likely will be replaced in the starting lineup by either junior Matt Joeckel or freshman Kenny Hill. Joeckel has thrown only 11 passes in his college career.
The news of Manziel's suspension was the talk of Twitter on Wednesday afternoon, with many questioning the length of the suspension. Former NFL and MLB star Deion Sanders was incredulous at the brevity of Manziel's suspension, after Dez Bryant was suspended for an entire season while at Oklahoma State after lying about having dinner with Sanders.
"Can we investigate the investigators? (at)DezBryant got suspended a season 4 lying about a dinner that wasnt a violation & Manziel gets a half," Sanders tweeted soon after the ruling was made public.
The decision also had a major impact in Las Vegas, where the odds of Manziel's chances of repeating as a Heisman winner and Texas A&M's chances of winning the national championship shifted dramatically on Wednesday. RJ Bell, the founder of sports betting web site Pregame.com, said that Manziel's chances of winning the Heisman jumped from 12/1 to 6/1 on Wednesday, and the team's shot at the title increased from 18/1 to 10/1.
The latest problem isn't the first time off-the-field trouble has put Manziel's career in jeopardy.
Manziel was arrested last summer after a bar fight near campus and charged with disorderly conduct, possession of the fake ID and failure to identify himself to police. It was an incident that put him in danger of being suspended from school and left him having to earn the starting job in fall camp.
Manziel admitted this June that he failed to identify himself to police following the altercation. As part of a plea deal, other charges against the 20-year-old, including disorderly conduct, were dismissed, and it looked like Manziel's trouble was behind him before the latest problems came to light.
Manziel became the first freshman to win the Heisman Trophy last season, setting numerous school and Southeastern Conference records while leading Texas A&M to an 11-2 mark and a victory over No. 1 Alabama in its first season in the SEC.
He followed that with a high-profile offseason of road trips to Las Vegas and the NBA Finals. Manziel got to meet Heat star LeBron James and rapper Drake, and he posted some Tweets that made headlines.
His biggest misstep, however, came during the summer when he departed early from a quarterback camp for high school players run by the Manning family in Louisiana. Manziel said it was a mutual decision after he overslept and missed meetings and activities.
Dat Nguyen, an All-America linebacker at Texas A&M in the 1990s and former assistant coach for the Aggies, lamented Manziel's mistakes, but noted what he's done for the program.
"I'm a little bit disappointed with what's going on down there," Nguyen said recently. "Going into the season I thought this would be the year for A&M to win a national championship and this has been a distraction. He made a bad decision and he's just got to move on ... but overall the guy has put A&M back on the map."
Former Texas A&M coach R.C. Slocum, who is now a special adviser to Texas A&M's president, has watched Manziel's career with great interest and is looking forward to seeing how he'll follow up his incredible first season.
"This young man has been in a position that no one has ever been in," Slocum said on Wednesday before the suspension was announced. "He's been a freshman and a 20-year-old winner of the Heisman Trophy, and he's done some great things with that and he's had a few things I'm sure he'd like to have a do-over with. And if I were advising him, I might have said, `That's probably not in your best interests to do that or say that or be there,' but in terms of the upcoming season, I'm as anxious as anybody to see what happens and see what the results are."
Manziel was the main attraction at SEC Media Days, where he was peppered with questions but answered with the same cool and calm he often shows in the face of a pass rush.
"I don't feel like I've done anything that's catastrophic," Manziel said at the time. "Of course, I've made my mistakes. It's time to grow up."
The day before the Aggies reported for preseason practice, ESPN reported Manziel signed thousands of autographs for brokers in Texas, Florida and Connecticut, and cited unidentified sources who said Manziel was paid thousands for dollars for the signatures.
Manziel has been off-limits to the media since news broke of the NCAA investigation, but has been practicing with the Aggies.
NYPD DESIGNATES MOSQUES AS TERRORISM ORGANIZATIONSWednesday, 28 August 2013 12:04 Published in National News
Designating an entire mosque as a terrorism enterprise means that anyone who attends prayer services there is a potential subject of an investigation and fair game for surveillance.
Since the 9/11 attacks, the NYPD has opened at least a dozen "terrorism enterprise investigations" into mosques, according to interviews and confidential police documents. The TEI, as it is known, is a police tool intended to help investigate terrorist cells and the like.
Many TEIs stretch for years, allowing surveillance to continue even though the NYPD has never criminally charged a mosque or Islamic organization with operating as a terrorism enterprise.
The documents show in detail how, in its hunt for terrorists, the NYPD investigated countless innocent New York Muslims and put information about them in secret police files. As a tactic, opening an enterprise investigation on a mosque is so potentially invasive that while the NYPD conducted at least a dozen, the FBI never did one, according to interviews with federal law enforcement officials.
The strategy has allowed the NYPD to send undercover officers into mosques and attempt to plant informants on the boards of mosques and at least one prominent Arab-American group in Brooklyn, whose executive director has worked with city officials, including Bill de Blasio, a front-runner for mayor.
The revelations about the NYPD's massive spying operations are in documents recently obtained by The Associated Press and part of a new book, "Enemies Within: Inside the NYPD's Secret Spying Unit and bin Laden's Final Plot Against America." The book by AP reporters Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman is based on hundreds of previously unpublished police files and interviews with current and former NYPD, CIA and FBI officials.
The disclosures come as the NYPD is fighting off lawsuits accusing it of engaging in racial profiling while combating crime. Earlier this month, a judge ruled that the department's use of the stop-and-frisk tactic was unconstitutional.
The American Civil Liberties Union and two other groups have sued, saying the Muslim spying programs are unconstitutional and make Muslims afraid to practice their faith without police scrutiny.
Both Mayor Mike Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly have denied those accusations. Speaking Wednesday on MSNBC's Morning Joe, Kelly reminded people that his intelligence-gathering programs began in the wake of 9/11.
"We follow leads wherever they take us," Kelly said. "We're not intimidated as to wherever that lead takes us. And we're doing that to protect the people of New York City."
The NYPD did not limit its operations to collecting information on those who attended the mosques or led prayers. The department sought also to put people on the boards of New York's Islamic institutions to fill intelligence gaps.
One confidential NYPD document shows police wanted to put informants in leadership positions at mosques and other organizations, including the Arab American Association of New York in Brooklyn, a secular social-service organization.
Linda Sarsour, the executive director, said her group helps new immigrants adjust to life in the U.S. It was not clear whether the department was successful in its plans.
The document, which appears to have been created around 2009, was prepared for Kelly and distributed to the NYPD's debriefing unit, which helped identify possible informants.
Around that time, Kelly was handing out medals to the Arab American Association's soccer team, Brooklyn United, smiling and congratulating its players for winning the NYPD's soccer league.
Sarsour, a Muslim who has met with Kelly many times, said she felt betrayed.
"It creates mistrust in our organizations," said Sarsour, who was born and raised in Brooklyn. "It makes one wonder and question who is sitting on the boards of the institutions where we work and pray."
Before the NYPD could target mosques as terrorist groups, it had to persuade a federal judge to rewrite rules governing how police can monitor speech protected by the First Amendment.
The rules stemmed from a 1971 lawsuit, dubbed the Handschu case after lead plaintiff Barbara Handschu, over how the NYPD spied on protesters and liberals during the Vietnam War era.
David Cohen, a former CIA executive who became NYPD's deputy commissioner for intelligence in 2002, said the old rules didn't apply to fighting against terrorism.
Cohen told the judge that mosques could be used "to shield the work of terrorists from law enforcement scrutiny by taking advantage of restrictions on the investigation of First Amendment activity."
NYPD lawyers proposed a new tactic, the TEI, that allowed officers to monitor political or religious speech whenever the "facts or circumstances reasonably indicate" that groups of two or more people were involved in plotting terrorism or other violent crime.
The judge rewrote the Handschu rules in 2003. In the first eight months under the new rules, the NYPD's Intelligence Division opened at least 15 secret terrorism enterprise investigations, documents show. At least 10 targeted mosques.
Doing so allowed police, in effect, to treat anyone who attends prayer services as a potential suspect. Sermons, ordinarily protected by the First Amendment, could be monitored and recorded.
Among the mosques targeted as early as 2003 was the Islamic Society of Bay Ridge.
"I have never felt free in the United States. The documents tell me I am right," Zein Rimawi, one of the Bay Ridge mosque's leaders, said after reviewing an NYPD document describing his mosque as a terrorist enterprise.
Rimawi, 59, came to the U.S. decades ago from the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
"Ray Kelly, shame on him," he said. "I am American."
The NYPD believed the tactics were necessary to keep the city safe, a view that sometimes put it at odds with the FBI.
In August 2003, Cohen asked the FBI to install eavesdropping equipment inside a mosque called Masjid al-Farooq, including its prayer room.
Al-Farooq had a long history of radical ties. Omar Abdel Rahman, the blind Egyptian sheik who was convicted of plotting to blow up New York City landmarks, once preached briefly at Al-Farooq. Invited preachers raged against Israel, the United States and the Bush administration's war on terror.
One of Cohen's informants said an imam from another mosque had delivered $30,000 to an al-Farooq leader, and the NYPD suspected the money was for terrorism.
But Amy Jo Lyons, the FBI assistant special agent in charge for counterterrorism, refused to bug the mosque. She said the federal law wouldn't permit it.
The NYPD made other arrangements. Cohen's informants began to carry recording devices into mosques under investigation. They hid microphones in wristwatches and the electronic key fobs used to unlock car doors.
Even under a TEI, a prosecutor and a judge would have to approve bugging a mosque. But the informant taping was legal because New York law allows any party to record a conversation, even without consent from the others. Like the Islamic Society of Bay Ridge, the NYPD never demonstrated in court that al-Farooq was a terrorist enterprise but that didn't stop the police from spying on the mosques for years.
And under the new Handschu guidelines, no one outside the NYPD could question the secret practice.
Martin Stolar, one of the lawyers in the Handschu case, said it's clear the NYPD used enterprise investigations to justify open-ended surveillance. The NYPD should only tape conversations about building bombs or plotting attacks, he said.
"Every Muslim is a potential terrorist? It is completely unacceptable," he said. "It really tarnishes all of us and tarnishes our system of values."
Al-Ansar Center, a windowless Sunni mosque, opened in Brooklyn several years ago, attracting young Arabs and South Asians. NYPD officers feared the mosque was a breeding ground for terrorists, so informants kept tabs on it.
One NYPD report noted that members were fixing up the basement, turning it into a gym.
"They also want to start Jiujitsu classes," it said.
The NYPD was particularly alarmed about Mohammad Elshinawy, 26, an Islamic teacher at several New York mosques, including Al-Ansar. Elshinawy was a Salafist - a follower of a puritanical Islamic movement - whose father was an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center attacks, according to NYPD documents.
The FBI also investigated whether Elshinawy recruited people to wage violent jihad overseas. But the two agencies investigated him very differently.
The FBI closed the case after many months without any charges. Federal investigators never infiltrated Al-Ansar.
"Nobody had any information the mosque was engaged in terrorism activities," a former federal law enforcement official recalled, speaking on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to discuss the investigation.
The NYPD wasn't convinced. A 2008 surveillance document described Elshinawy as "a young spiritual leader (who) lectures and gives speeches at dozens of venues" and noted, "He has orchestrated camping trips and paintball trips."
The NYPD deemed him a threat in part because "he is so highly regarded by so many young and impressionable individuals."
No part of Elshinawy's life was out of bounds. His mosque was the target of a TEI. The NYPD conducted surveillance at his wedding. An informant recorded the wedding and police videotaped everyone who came and went.
"We have nothing on the lucky bride at this time but hopefully will learn about her at the service," one lieutenant wrote.
Four years later, the NYPD was still watching Elshinawy without charging him. He is now a plaintiff in the ACLU lawsuit against the NYPD.
"These new NYPD spying disclosures confirm the experiences and worst fears of New York's Muslims," ACLU lawyer Hina Shamsi said. "From houses of worship to a wedding, there's no area of New York Muslim religious or personal life that the NYPD has not invaded through its bias-based surveillance policy."
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Charlotte after the bank crisis: 'Just fine, and you?'May 15, 2012: 5:00 AM ET
Preparing to host the Democratic convention, the nation's other financial hub looks beyond its wounded institutions.
By Ken Otterbourg, contributor
FORTUNE -- Charlotte is a corporate town. Counting its suburbs, it's still home to eight Fortune 500 companies, thank you very much. It's still very much the country's other banking center. But to make sense of what's happened here in the past four years -- the bust, the bottom, and what comes next -- the best place to begin isn't at the junction of Trade and Tryon streets downtown (the city's Tigris and Euphrates) or even in the gleaming office parks a stone's throw from the South Carolina state line.
Instead, let's head down the scrappy jangle of Wilkinson Boulevard to the Hyatt Gun Shop, which calls itself the nation's largest independent gun store. Larry Hyatt, the owner, is a friendly and perceptive man who is never without his cellphone or hammerless Smith & Wesson. In the go-go days before the economy went south, Hyatt had a booming trade selling high-end shotguns to the bankers who called, and still call, Charlotte home. When that business tailed off in 2007, he said it was the canary in the coal mine.
But a gun store that has thrived for 53 years is an adaptable business, and Hyatt soon found a big seller in gun safes. They weren't just for storing rifles. This time they were for holding money. "People wanted something safer outside of the banks," he says.
Outside of the banks. It's a concept that was once unimaginable here. Like Detroit outside of cars. Or Vegas outside of gambling. Two big banks -- Bank of America (No. 13) and Wachovia -- put Charlotte on the map, creating a first-class, if not world-class, city out of a place without a harbor, a river, or a major research university. Then they stumbled, each dragged down by the recession and one deal too many. Wachovia was sold to Wells Fargo (No. 26). Bank of America may be too big to fail, but it's an institution still under intense scrutiny from investors and regulators.
From the city's financial heart, the pain and uncertainty spread like a stain across the region, from the working-class towns of China Grove and Gastonia to the McMansions that line Lake Norman. Unemployment soared. So did foreclosures. It was as if the whole land -- the concrete and steel, the red dirt and the endless brick -- was holding its breath, just waiting for the other shoe to drop.
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And then it didn't. Charlotte isn't fully recovered yet, but the bulldozers and cranes have returned. The great migration from the Rustbelt that helped fuel its growth has resumed. Even the Dean & Deluca is expanding. Maybe next year even Michael Jordan's hapless Bobcats will win.
The gyrations have brought a dose of humility and new thinking to a swaggering region that had come to believe in the infallibility of its largest corporate citizens and perhaps relied too heavily on them for direction. Charlotte's rebound is also part of the larger national debate taking place about the proper role of government in rebuilding the economy.
This is just the kind of narrative that fits in with President Obama's bid for reelection, and it's against this backdrop that 6,000 delegates and another 30,000 or so hangers-on will descend on Charlotte in early September for the Democratic National Convention. Obama carried the state by a mere 14,000 votes in 2008, and it's hard to imagine a road to his reelection that doesn't run through North Carolina. How much does he need the state? Enough that he's willing to give his acceptance speech at Bank of America Stadium.
Given the comments that the President occasionally tosses around about the conduct of the big banks, there's some irony in this, but Charlotte isn't a particularly ironic place. It's more transactional, as befits a community without any counterweight to commerce. Howard Levine, the chairman of Family Dollar (No. 301) (FDO), the big discount retailer whose headquarters are just beyond the city limits in Matthews, prefers to see the President's decision as a symbol of reconciliation. "Maybe's he's signaling that we all need to move on as a country, not just the city of Charlotte, but as a country."
And there you have the essence of Charlotte. It is a city that knows how to move on.
There are a lot of theories about how this came to be, but Jim Rogers, the CEO of Duke Energy (No. 186) (DUK), says it's rooted in the settlement patterns that have shaped the city. More than two-thirds of the population of Mecklenburg County, which includes Charlotte, was born outside North Carolina. Simply put, the past here has no constituency.
Rogers helped recruit the convention, bringing a partisan event to a stridently nonpartisan city. It's an action that he insists has less to do with politics than with promoting economic development. He's trying to create what leaders here call an "energy hub," a critical mass of companies that would make Charlotte the center of the nonpetroleum power business. Siemens (SI) and Westinghouse, among others, already have big facilities in the area, and ABB (ABB) is building a massive cable factory north of the city. Manufacturing is a critical part of the regional workforce, and it's still suffering, accounting for two-thirds of the 60,000 jobs lost in the region during the recession.
"This is a city that has reinvented itself from an early trading post to the second-largest banking center in the United States and now is on a journey to reinvent itself again," says Rogers. "This is a story of resilience."
This concept of critical mass is important in understanding Charlotte's quiet rebound. Finance employment in Mecklenburg County peaked at nearly 54,000 jobs in 2007, dropped to 48,000 in 2009, and now is at just under 50,000. Wages for those jobs are rising again, although they are still below the peak average of $104,000. Two things happened. First, the massive layoffs feared at Bank of America (BAC) and Wells Fargo (WFC) never showed up. Second, other companies -- Fifth Third Corp. (FITB) and Ally Financial among them -- stepped in to fill the void.
Along with banking, NASCAR has been an engine and the symbol of Charlotte's rise. Speedway Motorsports, which owns and operates eight tracks, is based here, part of the pedal-to-the-metal empire controlled by Bruton Smith, who also runs Sonic Automotive Group (No. 330) (SAH). Charlotte's taxpayers built a $200 million NASCAR Hall of Fame downtown. It opened in 2010, and while it still isn't hitting attendance marks, boosters say it can act as a loss leader in recruiting business and big events.
That brings us to the government and its hand in the recovery here. There is, of course, the TARP money that sheltered the big banks and gave them breathing room. Chiquita Brands (CQB), which said last year it was moving here from Cincinnati, liked the growing international community and all the direct flights from Charlotte-Douglas International Airport, but the company also received $22 million in incentives. ABB will get $2.5 million from the state if it meets hiring goals. Even the new gunsmiths employed by Hyatt received retraining with help from federal funds. The list goes on, underscoring the tight relationship between the public and private sectors that prevails here.
"That's Charlotte's culture. It's one of inviting businesses in," says Mayor Anthony Foxx.
Foxx was narrowly elected in 2009, becoming the first Democratic mayor in 22 years. He was easily reelected last year with strong support from the business community. His dual tasks are to make sure that the rising tide lifts all boats and that the region's growth stays centered in Charlotte and doesn't shift to the suburbs.
Even with a population of 730,000 in a metro area of 1.8 million, Charlotte can seem like a very big small town. The 10-mile light-rail line runs on what is essentially an honor system. City leaders care about rankings and reputation in a way that larger, more established cities don't. Foxx won't say that his city got cocky when it was on top, but he says the hardships have brought forth a new spirit. "We're a little more compassionate, a little more sympathetic to people who are down on their luck," he says. "We also recognize that even the Titanic got sunk. No matter how big or strong you are, you have to keep moving forward. You can't be stagnant."
The momentum that fueled the city's boom years was essentially about large companies in established, old-line industries becoming larger. The industries of tomorrow -- in medicine, biotechnology, and the web -- so far haven't made Charlotte the next great place to land. And in this city of relentless self-improvement, the focus is on how to change that. Cheryl Richards is the dean of Northeastern University's new Charlotte campus, its first outside Boston, which opened last year as part of the scramble among universities to serve middle managers. She was part of a city delegation that visited Seattle to learn about development strategies for the new economy. The difference between the two cities, she says, is that "Seattle positions itself as growing talent. Charlotte positions itself as welcoming talent. We're importers of that talent."
Growing talent isn't easy or quick. Charlotte lacks an academic medical center, and the tech community is still oriented toward the needs of the big companies. The city and region's latest hopes for biotech are at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte's well-regarded bioinformatics department and in the next county over, at the North Carolina Research Campus, which was the brainchild of billionaire David Murdock. He has poured more than $500 million of his own money into the center, which focuses on nutrition and is built on the footprint of the sprawling textile company he once owned in Kannapolis. There's still a lot of empty space, but the goal is to create a research infrastructure -- a critical mass -- where none existed.
Efforts to bootstrap the region to tech cred are everywhere. There are formal undertakings, like the Packard Place technology incubator (built with a big assist from federal stimulus funds) and more informal get-togethers, like those at Hackerspace Charlotte and the twice-a-month gatherings at Skookum Digital Works, an app- and web-development firm.
Skookum had offices in the suburbs, but when the recession hit, it took advantage of the drop in commercial rents and moved downtown. "All the young guys get it. In Charlotte nobody under 40 needs convincing that the acute and accurate use of technology will solve the world's problems," says Bryan Delaney, who is 32 and one of the company's founders. Recruiting talent is getting easier, he says. "Once people have figured out they've had enough ramen and late-night debauchery, Charlotte is a great place to come and just live."
The Duke Energy Center was born as the Wachovia Center, prior to the bank's sale. Wells Fargo still owns the building, along with about 5.4 million additional square feet in the Charlotte area. That's up about 10% in the past three years, and employment is off only about 300 jobs.
Wells Fargo recently received approval from regulators to increase its dividend, a sign that some things here are returning to how they were. Bank of America's quarterly dividend remains -- as many people note with regret -- at only a penny a share.
Nearly 15,000 people in the region work for Bank of America, about the same as before the recession, and Charles Bowman, the bank's president for North Carolina, says Charlotte is still the bank's heart. The market is growing, and the golf and good weather here continue to be powerful recruiting tools. Still, none of that stops the endless parlor game of guessing the long-term intentions of CEO Brian Moynihan, who lives in Boston and shuttles between there, New York, and Charlotte. It's not a schedule that gives comfort that the ways things are drive the way they have to be. Even in forgetful Charlotte, the way things are draped in the soft focus of a past when anything seemed possible and when a two-bank rivalry did much more than hold down the cost of a loan.
There is still a hand grenade in Hugh McColl's office, although these days it is perhaps less a warning than an artifact of a bygone era. McColl, 76, retired 11 years ago from Bank of America and now runs an investment house called Falfurrias Capital Partners. Its offices are on the 51st floor of the Bank of America Center -- not the top, but high enough to give him a sweet view of the city he helped create.
"We are not looking back on the banks," he says. "We can't keep wringing our hands over that. The bank's still very strong, and it will come through all of this, but I don't think ever again will the city be dependent on the two rich uncles it used to have."
The dependency extended beyond skylines and United Way fund drives. In the late 1990s Charlotte received national attention for the wrong reasons, when the local arts council had its funding cut because it staged the play Angels in America. The move made Charlotte look provincial, and its business class, led by McColl and Ed Crutchfield, his counterpart at Wachovia's predecessor, First Union, got busy. "We said, 'Okay, fine, we're going to beat you,'" McColl says. "And we did. We helped get more open-minded people elected. We didn't do that often, but we did that."
Charlotte's way, which is McColl's way, is moderation and stability. He says politics at the extremes gets in the way of business, of making money, which he believes is the way to build a city.
I asked McColl his definition of a successful convention, and not surprisingly, it has little to do with President Obama's quest for a second term. It has to do with respect. What gripes the power players in Charlotte is that the letters N.C. stick to the city like a rash in the datelines of out-of-state newspapers and on national broadcasts. The idea that somebody doesn't know where Charlotte is, that it could be confused with Charleston, S.C., or Charlottesville, Va. -- well, it's just unfathomable to McColl, and if it takes a political convention to finally change that, then that's worth the effort.
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On March 26, the Uncompahgre Watershed Partnership hosted a public meeting on the 20-year Idarado Mine Remediation Project and zinc loading in Red Mountain Creek of the Uncompahgre River Basin.
Representatives from the Colorado Department of Public Health and the Environment and Idarado Mining Company presented results of remedial measures which were implemented as a result of a 1983 State of Colorado lawsuit brought against Idarado for damages to natural resources. The resulting 1992 Consent Decree and implemented remediation project had no provisions for mandatory public hearings or regular presentations, thus the UWP thanks the panel; Camille Price and Doug Jamison of CDPHE; Sherm Worthington of Worthington Miller Environmental, LLC; and Larry Fiske of Idarado, as well as attendees from Newmont Mining Corporation, for dedicating their time and resources to this valuable public update for the citizens of Ouray County.
Although revegetation of the tailings under the original remediation plan has met performance objectives in terms of percent live and total vegetative cover, determination of water quality compliance has been challenging (50 percent reduction in zinc concentrations is the remediation goal). Compliance could be calculated only in two years, since the beginning of monitoring in 2002 because stream flows were either higher than the required flow range or did not occur on sufficient number of days within the sampling period. Idarado and State representatives reviewed the details of monitoring results, further steps for additional sampling in 2013, and potential remedial measures to reduce zinc loading to Red Mountain Creek. They will consider several additional approaches, including mine portal plugs or partial bulkheads, portal water collection systems, pipelines, weeplines or infiltration channels, in-situ passive treatment systems, diversion channels, re-alignment of existing drainages or stream channels, removal of waste rock or tailings, and slope and bank stabilization. The detailed report can be found on UWP's website, www.uncompahgrewatershed.org.
The meeting was attended by 50 community members of Ouray County. The lively discussions at the end of the status report echoed the public's concern for water quality in their watershed and included some comments challenging the need for remediation. The panel graciously provided clarification and steps for further work within the Idarado project area. UWP believes that this forum was a model for private, governmental and public co-operation. The presentations were informative, and the question-and-answer session remained respectful. UWP welcomes future updates from Idarado and the State on the progress of additional remedial actions and encourages constructive public participation in the process. To receive periodic updates or get involved with the watershed group, please visit UWP's website.


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SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) is Novell's top-end desktop Linux for corporate environments. Inside you'll find a steady and stable system designed for interoperability and business-like efficiency. This month's DVD comes with 32-bit and 64-bit versions of SLED 11. SLED offers a practical set of the best desktop productivity tools. Version 11 also comes with new power management features, including display dimming, CPU throttling, and hard drive shutdown. According to Novell, the new Nomad remote desktop suite provides "near-native" graphics for remote desktop access sessions, which makes SLED an ideal candidate for remote virtual desktops. This DVD provides 60 days of free maintenance, which entitles you to any patches and updates. See the box titled "60 Days of Free Maintenance" for details.
SLED 11 32-Bit Highlights
Linux kernel 2.6.27
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Gnome 2.24
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This DVD is a double-sided disc. A DVD device always reads the side of the disc that is facing down. This DVD is labeled like a normal DVD – the label you see as you place the disk into the tray applies to the data on the opposite side.
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Novell offers 60 days of free maintenance for SLED users. To register, go to http://www.novell.com/evalcode, then login to your account or create a new account. You will receive an activation code for the free maintenance agreement.
At the end of 60 days, you'll need to purchase a support agreement with Novell in order to receive additional patches and updates.
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[1] Novell: http://www.novell.com
[2] SLED product page: http://www.novell.com/products/desktop
[3] SLED service and support: http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/services_support.html
[4] SLED forum options: http://forums.novell.com/novell-product-support-forums/suse-linux-enterprise-desktop-sled/
[5] SLED documentation: http://www.novell.com/documentation/sled11
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...and they think people will migrate from Redhat or Windows for this crap!? Can't even make a bootable dvd for god's sake.
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We aren't done sharing all the juicy Google news just yet. Amongst the plethora of exciting announcements from Google today came a unique and intriguing new product. It's called the Google Chromecast, and it will retail for $35 bucks. This device is basically an HDMI dongle which can seamlessly and wireless share streaming 1080p HD video content throughout all your devices including your home TV.
We will have a breakdown of all of its functionality below, or you can check out the video above to get a good idea. However, before we do that, we are also announcing a "quick contest" for this device! We will be giving away one Google Chromecast to one lucky, randomly chosen winner! All you have to do is post a comment in the thread and include your forum username and "Contest Entry" (bolded) in the title of your post. Please be aware that no duplicate entries will be included when the final winner is chosen. The contest will close and the winner will be chosen at Noon this Friday the 26th, so you only have a small window to win one.
Here's the full details of all this amazing little device is capable of:
- Two-inch USB device that runs "a simplified version of Chrome OS"
- Requires separate USB power
- You can connect it to your local WiFi network and similarly connected devices will work with Chromecast
- Early adopters will get three free months of Netflix
- It is an HDMI-CEC compatible, and it uses 2.4GHz 801.11 b/g/n WiFi.
- Apps that work with the device include a "Cast" button - this allows users to push video to their televisions and control various aspects remotely (volume, play, pause, etc.).
- According to Google Reps, "Once Chromecast is plugged in, you just go to YouTube on your smartphone. You'll see the cast button in your UI and you press it -- Chromecast will pull the info you requested from the cloud and play it on your TV."
- YouTube, Netflix, Google Play movies and more will be remotely controllable with the Chromecast
- Google showed Google Chrome projected on a TV and controlled remotely with a "standard $500 Windows 8 laptop." They indicated that this feature was only in beta but they expected to improve it quickly with feedback.
You can order the Chromecast today (again for $35 bucks) and it will ship in 1-2 days (but don't forget to try your luck with the contest first). It will be available in retail stores (like Best Buy) on July 28th.
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The Cougars (17-2-2) won the High Desert League and had a league-high 11 players earn all-league recognition. Sparks 17-4-1 fell in the state semifinals in a penalty kick shootout, 4-2, to eventual state champion, SECTA, and landed 10 players on its all-league list. The Raiders (5-10-1) were in the playoff hunt all season before being eliminated in the final week.
Spanish Springs Cougars
•After leading his squad to a league title, with an undefeated regular season, and back to the state tournament for the second time in four years, coach Rob Moreland was named the HDL Coach of the Year.
Moreland deflected the recognition to his players.
"It's nice to be recognized but the kids are the ones I thank," Moreland said. "They are the ones who did it."
Moreland's lightning-quick junior forward, Victor Garcia, was voted the Offensive Player of the Year.
Garcia shocked several opponents with his speed this fall, putting the Cougars in front, 1-0, just minutes into a match.
"He (Garcia) was huge … His early goals really helped us out," Moreland said. "It will be nice to have him back next year."
Jonathan Garcia (midfield), Gabby Vasquez (midfield), Manny Medina (defender) and Omar Trujillo (goalie) were first-team selections.
Joining the second team were, Ricardo Camacho (forward), Nestor Andrade (defender), Jonathan Andrade (defender) and Freddy Arriola (defender).
Edwin Medina (forward) and Marshall Andrews (midfield) were Honorable Mention selections.
"I think the kids did really well. I'm proud of them," Moreland said. "We won our first league title, didn't win the state title, but still raised the bar for Spanish Springs."
Sparks Railroaders
•Off the field, the Railroaders were led by coach Frank Avilla, who earned Coach of the Year honors for the fifth time in 11 years.
"You are only as good as what you are working with," Avilla said. "It's an award that is shared with the whole staff. Without the entire staff, we wouldn't have the success we did."
On the field, the Railroaders were led by scoring machine Ruben Pacheco, who was named the league MVP and landed on the All-State Team.
"To see the success he's brought to the school and himself, it's been a great thing for him," Avilla said.
Juan Hernandez (midfield), Jose Mendoza (defender) and Lucio Espitia (defender) joined Pacheco as first-team selections. Hernandez and Mendoza were also all-state selections.
Luis Geisendorf (defender), Jesus Partida (midfield), Edwin Navarro (midfield) and Cesar Arroyo (defender) earned second-team accolades.
Ronaldo Hernandez (goalie), Frankie Macias (utility) and Oscar Gomez (midfield) were honorable mention selections.
"To have (11) selections based on eight other coaches, it's a neat thing," Avilla said.
Reed Raiders
•Anthony Chinchilla led the Raiders' all-league party, earning Midfielder-of-the-Year recognition.
"(Chinchilla) definitely (deserved award)," Reed coach Joel Martinez said. "As a coach, it feels really rewarding. It shows there is a lot of talent at Reed High."
Chinchilla scored nine goals and handed out seven assists this season.
Adrian Lopez (forward) was the lone other Raider to land on the first team while Julio Cortez (midfield) was the lone Raider to land on the second team.
Kevin McPartland (midfield) and Fernando Martinez (defender) earned honorable mention accolades.


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Written by authors who are themselves Deaf, this unique book illuminates the life and culture of Deaf people from the inside, through their everyday talk, their shared myths, their art and performances, and the lessons they teach one another. Padden and Humphries employ the capitalized "Deaf" to refer to deaf people who share a natural language--American Sign Language (ASL)--and a complex culture, historically created and actively transmitted across generations. Signed languages have traditionally been considered to be simply sets of gestures rather than natural languages. This mistaken belief, fostered by hearing people's cultural views, has had tragic consequences for the education of deaf children; generations of children have attended schools in which they were forbidden to use a signed language. For Deaf people, as Padden and Humphries make clear, their signed language is life-giving, and is at the center of a rich cultural heritage. The tension between Deaf people's views of themselves and the way the hearing world views them finds its way into their stories, which include tales about their origins and the characteristics they consider necessary for their existence and survival. Deaf in America includes folktales, accounts of old home movies, jokes, reminiscences, and translations of signed poems and modern signed performances. The authors introduce new material that has never before been published and also offer translations that capture as closely as possible the richness of the original material in ASL. Deaf in America will be of great interest to those interested in culture and language as well as to Deaf people and those who work with deaf children and Deaf people.
Inside Deaf Cultureby Tom Humphries Carol Padden
From the front flap: "In this [account] of the changing life of a community, the authors of Deaf in America reveal historical events and forces that have shaped the ways that Deaf people define themselves today. Inside Deaf Culture relates Deaf people's search for a voice of their own, and their proud self-discovery and self description as a flourishing culture. "Padden and Humphries show how the nineteenth-century schools for the deaf, with their denigration of sign language and their insistence on oralist teaching, shaped the lives of Deaf people for generations to come. They describe how Deaf culture and art thrived in mid-twentieth-century Deaf clubs and Deaf theater, and they profile controversial contemporary technologies. Most triumphant is the story of the survival of the rich and complex American Sign Language long misunderstood but finally recognized by a hearing world that could not conceive of language in a form other than speech. In a moving conclusion, the authors describe their own very different pathways into the Deaf culture, and reveal the confidence and the anxiety of the people of this tenuous community as it faces the future." Except for spell-checking, I did nothing with the Notes or Index. They seemed usable to me as they are, but if you need help with them let me know and I'll get the book again and fix them. Cindy Rosenthal email@example.com
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How did Britain try to keep the support of the people of West Africa?
Propaganda is information that is spread to promote a cause. During the Second World War, Britain and her allies fought against Germany and the axis powers in a war which took place on land and sea in many parts of the world. Both sides made use of propaganda to try and win support from other countries.
Britain was keen to keep the support of the colonies in her Empire, including those in West Africa, and sent propaganda leaflets like the one in this lesson to try and help win their support.
- alliteration (a phrase where adjacent or closely related words begin with the same letter sound)
- personal pronouns 'you' and 'your'; count how many times they appear
- references to the reader's children
- loaded words - 'partner' and 'slave'
- repetition of the key idea.
1. This is a propaganda leaflet designed for distribution in West Africa. It was printed in the early 1940s. Your task is to study both the words and pictures in this leaflet in order to work out how it tried to persuade West Africans to support Britain rather than Hitler.
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Embodying the despairs, hopes, dreams, resilience, sadness and excitement of starting life in a new land is this collection of over 30 poignant night-time images depicting Irish emigrants in Dublin locations significant to them. The work of Dubliner David Monahan, these beautiful photographs make connections between Australia's Irish heritage and the situation today – when people are again leaving Ireland for a better life somewhere.
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Do you have what it takes to become a manager? "There's a fallacy in business that good workers always get promoted up to management, and this just isn't the case," says Robert Balcerzak, a management consultant and area chair of the MBA program at the University of Phoenix Indianapolis Campus. "You have to seek those opportunities out yourself."
Here, he and other experts share their tips on how to make the leap from cubicle to corner office:
Be upfront.
"The first thing anyone who wants to become a manager should do is let it be known that you want to manage," Balcerzak advises.
Watch your image.
Managers lead not just with their work, but also their behavior, he says. "Good managers are respected because they project the image of leadership, and they do it consistently," he points out. That means dressing and acting the part — even before you have it.
Michael Lee, a banking manager and area chair for the MBA program at the Idaho Campus, agrees. "What will get you ahead is building trust," he notes. "Your behavior needs to be ethical, your relationships reliable and your communication unambiguous."
Meanwhile, Diane Deaton, a human resource manager and area chair at the Kansas City Campus, recommends that aspiring managers be positive, flexible and respectful of their co-workers at all times. "Don't be a complainer," she says.
Demonstrate your leadership skills.
This is one way to fast-track into a management position, according to Deaton. She recommends that employees volunteer to do everything from leading staff meetings to taking on tough projects. "Find something that needs to be fixed and figure out [how] to fix it," she suggests.
Balcerzak concurs. "Seek out the problems nobody else wants to deal with and solve them, instead of just saying, 'It's not my job,'" he says.
Look for additional training.
Although many managers learn on the job, Balcerzak believes they should still seek additional education whenever possible.
"Take advantage of any management training opportunities your company offers, and attend leadership seminars," he encourages. "If you want to become an executive, you'll need an MBA."
Understand your strengths.
Not a people person? Don't fret — there are many types of managers, according to Lee.
"Depending on your area of expertise, the management track you follow depends on whether you manage people, resources or processes," he explains. For example, those who administer large department budgets or do strategic planning can still be managers, even if no staff members report directly to them.
Develop a vision.
"What sets managers apart from the rank and file is the ability to think ahead," Balcerzak asserts. "Rather than making snap decisions, they think critically about how solutions will impact multiple stakeholders."
Good managers also know how to take direction from their employees, Deaton notes. "Being a manager isn't just being the boss," she says. "Ask [people] what they think, and really listen to their answers."


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Multiple iTunes Libraries on different HD's
Hey guys,
I am running out of space on my Mac HD.
Is it possible to create a secondary iTunes folder on an external hard drive to store my least used iTunes playlists/playlist folders and use my Mac HD to store my most frequented ones?
If I did this, would my External HD song titles/playlists still be visible in iTunes even through the files are currently not attached?
Would it be possible to set up so that; when I am away from my External HD, I can only access the playlist folders on my Mac HD but, when I am back with my external I can have my full range of iTunes playlists.
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One method is to have one iTunes library, with your favorite music stored on your internal drive, so it's available when you're mobile (if you have a notebook), with the remainder stored on one or more external drives.
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Does this mean if you are on the 3 year roadmap you will get FTTH? How soon prior to construction in an area do the contracts get signed?
Shadow communications minister, Malcolm Turnbull, has confirmed a Coalition government would honour existing contracts for the National Broadband Network (NBN).
However, Turnbull said the Coalition would consider negotiating a round of further contracts to complete the roll out of a national network based on fibre-to-the-node technology, instead of the fibre-to-the-premises model currently being employed for the NBN build.
"You might complete the contacts that you've already got for fibre-to-the-premises and then enter into new ones for fibre-to-the-node," he told Computerworld Australia.
Last night, Turnbull also indicated a Coalition government would not build the NBN in areas currently serviced by HFC in the "near term", which employs a mix of copper and fibre, covering around 30 per cent of Australia.
"You wouldn't be overbuilding the HFC areas in the near term because they're getting very good service already," he said on ABC's Lateline program.
Turnbull has previously indicated he would retain the HFC network in order to remove "barriers to competition" with the NBN.
However, retaining the HFC network would require key NBN contacts to be renegotiated, including an $11 billion agreement between Telstra and NBN Co and an $800 million agreement between Optus and NBN Co.
Mark Feetham, partner at law firm K&L Gates, said contract renegotiation might not be a straightforward process.
He said some contracts might need to undergo regulatory approval from the ACCC, a process the current Telstra and Optus agreements with NBN Co had to go through.
"Generally contracts don't allow one party to dictate a change. However, some government contracts will require the parties to negotiate in good faith," Feetham said.
"If the parties aren't able to reach an agreement, then sometimes the clause will go on and say that if the parties aren't able to agree after a period of time, then one party can terminate the agreement.
"It's unlikely that the contract's going to have a unilateral right for the government just to vary the contract."
In cases where agreements are terminated, Feetham said compensation would need to be paid.
"The leverage that the Coalition government would have would depend on whether the terms of those contracts allowed for a reshaping or a re-scoping or a possible right to terminate the contract in the event of regulatory change," Feetham said.
Although the Coalition has repeatedly stated it would mainly use a fibre-to-the-node network for the NBN in brownfield premises, with fibre-to-the-premises in greenfield developments, Turnbull said he is not completely against FTTH as a technology.
"What you have to do is balance a bunch of different things," Turnbull told Computerworld Australia.
"You've got to balance the service [and make sure] the infrastructure you're proposing to build can deliver both … capability and in terms of what customers actually need or will pay for.
"Then you've got to think about how much it is going to cost, because that's going to impact on how much you're going to have to charge for it – the more it costs, the more you're going to have to charge.
"If money was no object and you didn't care how much money you spent and you didn't care how long it took, yes you would do fibre into every house – without a doubt."
However, Turnbull conceded that the "claimed" benefit of FTTH is that it can deliver much higher speeds – up to 1Gbps, in the future.
"That is not feasible under fibre-to-the-node – at least in the present time," Turnbull said.
"Although it's worth noting that the NBN is advertising 100Mbps as their top speed product and of course 100Mbps is way more than most people either need or let alone will pay for, as indeed the carriers have found out already because … Telstra's offering a 100Mbps product on HFC and hasn't had much success in selling it."
Telstra's HFC network passes 2.8 million premises.
On Wednesday, NBN Co said contractor Syntheo was responsible for NBN Co downgrading its premises passed target for June 2013.
Addressing a Senate Estimates hearing, NBN Co didn't reveal the specific problem that led to the change in targets.
"This performance in WA, SA and the NT does not fill you with any confidence … We are constantly getting anecdotal reports of the rollout not being effective and not meeting targets, even the reduced targets that they set in August last year," Turnbull said.
The NBN has suffered previous delays stretching back to March 2011, when NBN Co blamed protracted negotiations with Telstra for delays to the launch of second release sites for the network.
In August last year NBN Co blamed the ACCC for contributing to a nine-month delay due to the approval process required by the watchdog for the $11 billion definitive agreements between Telstra and NBN Co.
Turnbull described the latest rollout delay as a "debacle" and took a swipe at what he said was NBN Co's lack of transparency, which he has said has hindered the Coalition in costing its version of the NBN.
"NBN management, as you know, are hardly forthcoming," Turnbull said.
"For a company whose main product is glass fibre, they're not very transparent."
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Does this mean if you are on the 3 year roadmap you will get FTTH? How soon prior to construction in an area do the contracts get signed?
As I understand it, when an area is marked as "under construction" is when the contract is signed
The HFC does not cover 'around 30 per cent of Australia.'
It covers a very small part of the continent where it was rolled out in some areas of Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne, and even if we use the misleading figure of connected services, the figure is nothing like 30 per cent of the total.
It might be useful to check figures like this that seem to have a purely political origin...
It covers 28% of premises in the footprint, but can only service less than 25% of them with a contention prone service and is not business capable nor is it capable of being wholesaled, so remains a monopoly
Built in high value areas, guess those Liberal Voters will be impressed when the fibres are pulled through those areas to service the adjacent lower value areas, especially the businesses
Telstra has issues flogging their 100Mb HFC because HFC has crap contention and upload and they charge a packet
Remember HFC in Aust was NOT designed for Broadband, but for Multicast Pay TV and Telephony.
It is the cheap delivery service for Murdoch and Telstras Media Monopoly. Expensive to upgrade
Welcome to the circus, the puppets dance to the tune of the puppet master as the band plays on
At least Australia was cheap and easy and to be delivered soon
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Poor Fella Australia
@Abel Adamski
Do you feel compelled to post your nonsense on every web site that has some mention of the NBN?
@ Mike Hunt
I guve a damn about Australia and it's future.
I see a ubiquitous scaleable national communications iinfrastructure as an essential foundation for our future
I also see misinformation, fud and straight out lies and deception .
I also believe in Democracy the core principle of which is an INFORMED Vote.
At this time in Australia that is becoming impossible for those that trust the media. thus any resultant goverment by definition is illegitimate
I stand for what I believe in and try to fight the FUD.
What is your position?
As I understand it, I would not trust one word of the LNP with regards to the NBN......their position on the NBN has been (and still is) completely fluid, they cannot be tied down to a clear & costed plan (the media still remains unwilling to call them to account for detail) and you can bet that the end result will not favour the average punter. Real retail competition (ie. lower prices & far superior services) will be lost if the LNP get their hands on the NBN. Australia will shoot itself in the foot.....again. Telstra & Foxtel (& Uncle Rupert) will be some of the lucky few to benefit most from Turnbull's hybrid fraudband network.
Roll on NBN!
Any sensible government would consider and use all available technologies. After all, everyone would like faster broadband but at the rate the NBN is progressing it could be 20+ years to complete. Who wants to wait that long?
Why is the LNP proposing a two tier discriminatory system Where some will have NBN Fibre broadband, others will have the near useless HFC (which Turnbull is attempting to tell the average punter is somehow equivalent to NBN when it's not) and others still are just going to get what others have got ADSL2+ and the bush and regional Australians are going to be left with low latency Wireless and Satellite thereby hanging in the breeze.
U gotta be kidding Turnbull this ain't policy, it's some Australians are more equal than others. At least my local LNP member Louise Marcus is doing her best to ensure that residents of the Blue Mountains receive NBN Fibre ASAP perhaps she should replace Turnbull she's got a much better Idea of what Australians want!
The NATIONAL BROADBAND NETWORK is just that, wholesale, open access, scaleable, easily and economically upgradeable and built to serve all sectors of the economy for many decades to come and will pay for itself and deliver a dividend to the taxpayer and it is actually progressing well as a 10 year project. Yes it delivers faster broadband to everyone, but that is only a small part of what it is about.
The Coalition is NOT proposing a NBN even if they use the term, just a short term bandaid still depending on ageing expensive to maintain copper that is OWNED by Telstra
Their proposal is best called the "Superfast Broadband" (Whatever that Lotto means) Initiative and does not tick the boxes.
Once Billions are spent to upgrade and extend Murdoch/Telstra's Pay TV network (HFC) they cannot ever afford to overbuild that., That is why Telstra is doing those Deep Packet Inspections , to try to reduce the load on their HFC. So if HFC in your area that is all you will ever get.
As Essential to the Nation as Communications is to the economy especially in the Future, the Coalition Policies will have created the national communications platform we will have to live with. Labor will NEVER attend to shortcomings and failures of that in the Future . Murdoch and The Libs now own that , it is their baby and now and for ever they wear the responsibilty
I disagree with Labour's policies in most areas yet will sadly have to vote for them based on NBN alone. For once Labour is actually doing something right using tax payer dollars to fund a significant infrastructure project for future generations that private enterprise will never fund. The Coalition wants to undo the hard work. Stupid stuff Tony. You just lost a vote. Bring on fibre to the home for Australia!
"... 100Mbps is way more than most people either need or let alone will pay for..."
- Such short sighted dribble is embarrassing. How can Turnbull so blindly ignore data trends and even consider such an ill conceived statement. Remember when people thought 56k was the fastest speed we would ever need.
I have been sitting on the fence but this has well and truly tipped me in favor of Labor.
Or remember when 28.8k was considered pretty hot stuff, until 56k became the aspirational target. How quickly things move - and how quickly we forget!
And some aspiring politicians want to keep it that way with their silver tongued oratory.
My questions to Mr Turnbull would be as follows:
1) If I'm on the 3 year roll-out plan (green area - Fibre, on the NBN site) do I get FTTP under a Coalition NBN? (or at what point in the plan don't I get FTTP?)
I want a straight answer and so will 1 Million+ homes in green.
2) If I don't have 'usable' copper, will I get FTTP?
(i.e. will you install new copper where none is working?)
3) Given the previous Telstra deal took x months/years, will the NBN roll-out be put on hold while you negotiate how many more $Billions to pay for the copper, and if so, how is this Coalition roll-out going to be faster?
4) Given that FTTN has a much more limited lifespan (some would say an upgrade in 20 years) than FTTP, Is the cost benefit analysis you are demanding going to have terms of reference of 30+ years, or better yet include the price of that future upgrade?
5) For the $5 Billion saved (source by Independent MP), what is the lower asset value of the outcome? (Say Labor Gov invests $30Bil and get $45-70 Billion asset after 20 years, yet Coalition invests $25 Billion (inc $10 Billion to Telstra for the copper) and get a $15-20 Billion dollar asset after 20 years? Will this analysis be in the Cost Benefit Analysis)
6) If HFC areas are excluded, and slower service will be worth less, will the government forgo NBN annual returns or provide ongoing subsidies for rural services? (Otherwise can you provide the % increase in cost for ALL rural services?)
Dident NBN Co release documents showing that their best selling poduct was 100mbps?
That invalidates alot of Turnbulls arguement there.
FTTN able to do Gb? There is not even speculation that it can, let alone any development towards it.
FTTN for brownfields? I live in an acreage estate. Each FTTN node would service about 80 houses maximum (45m frontages, 800m from node max). The standard Alcatel node is designed to service 500. There goes the efficency and cost savings.
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Mission accomplished.
I actually just learned some tragic news: Corona is supposedly owned by A-Busch. Which means it, too, is now (or soon to be) Belgian.
My favorite beer - my Mexican beer- is Belgian?
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I don't think so, but I've heard that Damelos Cerveza is pretty good. Or Darlesami Lager, that's tasty, too.
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My Spanish is a little rusty, but I think the beers I named could be roughly translated as GETM Beer.
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